Hello tracer,
Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 12:08:21 PM, you wrote:
>>> I don't recommend TB! to anyone outside of power users. It's just
>>> not worth the effort for most people.
I wouldn't class me as a true power user but I do agree with Des that
it would be a terrible thing if The Bat! became simplified. As M$
proved if you simplyfy anything enough anyone will use. I get get huge
amounts of e-mails that read like this:
the whole idea of having a table for me is so that i could have a border How have I
managed
to put them off and give them the wrong impression It lack images, content, it is a
bit dull, but
then agian my Dad hasn't given me to work with and I don't know much HTML and I don't
know
any facey stuff like Java script, I am just a biggine
>> That just about sums up my feelings. I find TB! great, with the
>> exception of the text editing system, which doesn't really take the
>> "Wrap Lines at nn characters" into account when you edit a previous
>> line of text. I hear that's an old Delphi problem.
It is an old Delphi problem. It's part of the Delphi text box which is
one of the reasons we have to put up with fixed width fonts. Delphi 5
supports much cooler text boxes which work properly. It's fine until
you need to re-edit a message.
t> But the bat doesnt give him any problems for simple emails.
I've seen some lamers who have difficulty working out how to shut
their computer down.
t> I would imagine that half the users if not more would be very happy
t> with an email client which works as well as the BAT with less features
t> as they arent using them anyway.
New lamer users would start using The Bat! but many experienced users
would leave in droves. I like being able to use regular expression
(albeit not very well). I like the filtering capabilities and the
sheer power of TB!. Long live TB! may the bat fly forever.
>> It's just too much effort for standard users (aka normal people)
>> since
>> there are too many undocumented features and ctrl-alt-shift-[x]
>> routines that don't have a menu item :)
Who cares?
>> In a way, as with Linux, I would rather it stayed that way. Make it
>> too appealing for no-brainers, and everything will be ruined by
>> clueless AOL users - just like Usenet, in the September That Never
>> Ended =)
>> We don't want TB users TYPING IN ALL CAPS NOW DO WE? (That reminds
>> me, we need a lameness filter that deletes any emails that have too
>> many capitals in them!)
The lameness filter would use advanced statistical techniques such as
a:
length of sentence counter
ratio of all caps words to total number of lower case words
punctuation meter (not incorrect punctuation, just the lack of it)
non capitalization of i alert
As we all know the real problem is not users writing entirely in caps,
it's users who write lengthy e-mails only using lower case and no
punctuation.
>> [No offense to anyone here who really does use AOL for some reason,
>> but... wake up and smell the coffee :p ]
Offend them as much as you want. Like they'd get access to this list.
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do not read further if you are easily irritated
Does anyone have some php3 and ssi enabled server space I could borrow
for a while? Please I'm getting desperate.
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>From Jamie Dainton
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Wednesday, June 28, 2000 10:36:41 PM
Using The Bat! 1.45 Beta/1
Windows Millenium 4.90 2525
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